Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann issued the following statement.
Cities
will have more flexibility to collect overdue balances on utility bills
under House Bill 359, approved by the Mississippi Senate today. The
legislation now heads to the House for concurrence.
Under
the legislation spearheaded by Senators John Horhn and David Blount,
municipal-owned utilities would be permitted to institute a program
creating
a payment plan for delinquent accounts. Pertinent utilities include
water, sewer, electricity, gas, or other services.
Municipalities
would also have the authority to adjust balances where the customer did
not receive service because of an error on the part of the utility,
or where a billing error occurred because of an extreme weather-related
event or other emergency.
“Many
cities suffered interrupted utility service and other problems during
the recent snowstorm which swept the State, including the Capital
City,” Lt.
Governor Delbert Hosemann said. “This bill is intended to provide more
options to cities to collect unpaid debt and reconcile accounts where a
consumer’s bill is incorrect due to a natural disaster or other
emergency.”
To view the legislation, visit
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.
3 comments:
Great! Now Jackson can write off all those bills that they refused to collect - for water, sewer and garbage fees because the meters might not have worked. (Boo boo still went in sewer, garbage still put into WM trucks) but for four years Lumumba didn't make 'his condtitutents' pay. Now he can write them off while begging state for hundreds of millions to fix the system. The system that is broken - because it is broke.
If you incur all the costs, and collect only from 20% of customers, your business runs out of money. And can't pay to fix anything.
When the state takes over the Jackson water system, I'll support the state taking over the airport. You can't cherry pick.
Its an enterprise fund. It can easily be separated from the city budget.
Municipal Utilities represent an employee with criminal intent's most lucrative opportunity for theft and corruption. This just makes it easier.
So...to recap: Cities will be using girls with 12th grade certificates to develop, implement, monitor and oversee 'payment plans' - The same girls who can't balance their own checkbooks.
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